A Stylistic Analysis of Oscar Wilde’s the Nightingale and the Rose
Journal Title: International Journal of Social Sciences and Education - Year 2016, Vol 6, Issue 4
Abstract
Oscar Wilde’s fairy story The Nightingale and the Rose, like other Oscar Wilde’s short stories, is written in an aesthetic voice. During this fairy tale, Oscar Wilde uses various stylistic devices for the interpretation of aesthetic and artistic notions. Here our focus is on finding out the literary stylistic devices that bestow idiosyncrasy on the writing of the concerned writer. His manipulation and careful choice of words make his language rich, and his penchant for innovative expression and syntax makes his style unique. All the stylistic devices which are used by Hemingway in his literary works create cohesion and coherence i.e., they make a literary text sensible. He handles the literary stylistic devices in a way that makes his style deviant from the language norms and different from other writers’ style as well. To prove how Oscar Wilde attract his readers in this interesting story via stylistics analysis, this research mainly showcases an overview of stylistics based on Xu Youzhi’s book English Stylistics and gives a brief introduction of Oscar Wilde and some knowledge on The Nightingale and the Rose. After that , with the references to stylistic theory, a comprehensive stylistic analysis of the tale in lexical, syntactic, semantic, phonetic and contextual features will be presented. Finally, this paper will tend to give a brief statement of summarizing the stylistic features, which assist Oscar Wilde create a story that successfully absorbs and shocks whoever reads it.
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Sarab Kadir Mugair, Aswan Jalal Abbas
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